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HERITAGE CONSERVATION AND RECREATION SERVICE OCT 3 0 1979 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTOR Y -- NOMINATION FORM CONTINUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER 2 PAGE l 1. Hedges-Hunter-Keller-Bacon Grist Mill 11. Tiffin Art Metal Company 450 Wall Street Tiffin, Ohio 44983 Hunter, William, Residence 12. Webster Mfg., a division of Webster Industries, Inc. 325 Hall Street 4. Mueller, Christ, Residence 5: Ohio Lantern Company 6. Tiffin Agricultural Works Wagner Bros.
Bottling Works Bowman's Distillery FHR-8-300A RECEIVED Tiffin Waterworks (11/78) Mueller Brewery Hanson Machinery Company 255 Riverside Drive 40 Harrison Street Industrial Buildings of Tiffin 60-72 Hudson Street DATE ENTERED 146-164 Riverside Drive 250-258 Benner Street Beatty Glass Company UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 235 Miami Street 170 Ella Street FOR HCRS USE ONLY Northwest corner of Fourth Avenue and Vine Street UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR HERITAGE CONSERVATION AND RECREATION SERVICE OCT 3 0 1979 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTOR Y -- NOMINATION FORM CONTINUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER 4 1. Hedges-Hunter-Keller-Bacon Grist Mill 10. Wagner Bros. Bottling Works Robert H. Losey Tiffin, Ohio 44883 2. Hunter, William, Residence 11. Tiffin Art Metal Roger H. Bacon 450 Wall Street 3. Mueller Brewery James F. Kuebler, et. al.
Box 39 / 146 Riverside Drive 325 Hall Street 4. Mueller, Christ, Residence 13. Hanson Machinery Company 400 Melmore Street 5. Ohio Lantern Co. Corinne M. Hoffman 6. Tiffin Agricultural Works 7. Tiffin Waterworks 8. Bowman's Distillery Richard E. Digby 9. Beatty Glass Company Leonard Silver Manufacturing Co., Inc. Boston, Massachusetts 02100 PAGE RECEIVED FHR-8-300A DATE ENTERED Clair Forrest Tiffin Scenic Studios Martha Jane Smith (11/78) Webster Industries, Inc. 236 South Washington Street Pioneer Real Estate Webster Mfg. 102 East Perry Street Industrial Buildings of Tiffin 144 Addison Street 255 Riverside Drive 221 Lelar Street Ohio Cities Water Company 235 Miami Street 83 West Market Street c/o Tiffin Metal Products FOR HCRS USE ONLY The Tiffin Art Metal Co.
37 Clay Street UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR HCRS USE ONLY HERITAGE CONSERVATION AND RECREATION SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTOR Y -- NOMINATION FORM CONTINUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER 7 section of building; sawing on first floor of south end of this section with steam dry room on second and third floors. South long end of building then had blacksmith ship with 8 forges and earth floor, tiring room and tire heater in one-story section on north side of west end; west end of three-story section of this part had warehouse on first and second floors, setting up on 3rd floor; east end of this section had warehouse on first floor, way to the Sandusky River at one time, but this section had been demolished by 1901. The interior is now open for warehousing, and no original equipment is known to exist. has an ashlar stone foundation and truncated hip shingle roof.
On main building, double front door has wood paneling (not now used). Windows double-hung 1/1 and paired. Windows While brick dentil work under eaves. Roof gable over door and one on each side over windows. has double-hung 1/1 windows with plain slip sills and radiating voussoirs; roof is hip and hung 2/2 windows with plain slip sills and radiating voussoirs; hip shingled roof. Addition northeast of main building has double-hung 1/1 windows in concrete walls, concrete foundation Pumping Engine operated by water power with a capacity of 3 million gallons per 24 hours; Knowles and McGovern pump operated by steam also used, also with capacity of 3 million of cast and wrought iron pipes, two water mains (one 16" and one 12"), 107 hydrants, and 350 wood architraves, one with triangular pediment and one with small entablature.
All basement PAGE FHR-8-300A DATE ENTERED (11/78) Industrial Buildings of Tiffin but with keystone added.Frotny door also has added hip-style hood with decorative woodwork. windows and 1door across front (east side).Second-floor front has double door with put in operation; this was constructed by Focht Bros.of Tiffin and was 75 feet in diameter OCT 3 0 1979 reinforced steel which was torn down in 1968. Windows and door in 1878 main pump house pipes in the city with the City of Tiffin renting the hydrants. In 1886 there were 15 miles Bowman's Distillery (8) is a two-story brick building in common bond with a gable and one rectangular fixed sash window were created from first-floor windows. Doors have windows which would have been half visible above the ground are bricked shut. Originally 8 radiating voussoir; unaltered.
North side has door at basement level that looks original; to the east end of the northern long section of the building. Building extended all the RECEIVED Additions made in 191l,1915,and 1917.1917 addition included 100-foot tall smokestack of and 12 feet high; the older 250,000 gallon basin was also used. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR HCRS USE ONLY HERITAGE CONSERVATION AND RECREATION SERVICE RECEIVED OCT 3 0 1979 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM CONTINUATION SHEET have used the building for storage and warehouse operations since the Wagon Works folded, The Tiffin Waterworks (7) was built on the site of an old flouring mill, one-and-one- power, was used by the waterworks. In 1892 the waterworks was still using artesian, deep- Waterworks Company pumping station.
From 1928 to the present, it has been privately owned only pumping station for the City of Tiffin and was listed as a National Historic Water Ohio Power Company building on South Monroe Street; this is part of the Downtown Tiffin Bowman's Distillery (8), the city's only known distillery still standing, was probably built between 1873 and 1881, since Cyrus Bowman is listed in the city directory in 1881 but not in 1873 for this address. This distillery was located on the site of the old of commercial uses, including Riverside Furniture Company (from 1956-1971), the building is now used as the Gallery Antiques store.
From the 1880s on, Tiffin's economy has been oriented toward highly-specialized not an easy town for labor unions to operate in, and there is not a large unskilled white or concerns are machine-oriented and not agriculturally-oriented like the industries described and gas here in 1888 to produce more reliable fuel supplies; the completion of a large railroad network with four lines through the City to transport raw and finished goods throughout the country; and the enterprise of various citizens who actively recruited new the most important of these individuals, and his Frost Foundation is still an important FHR-8-300A (11/78) Historic District. Industrial Buildings of Tiffin DATE ENTERED make this an ideal warehouse building.
was founded in 1917 by August Floom, proprietor of a downtown grocery, and Walter Fleck, who with the most important being Floom-Fleck Grocery(1927-1970).The Floom-Fleck Company Leather Finishers continued with a similar business here from 1936-1942.After a variety and operated for the City of Tiffin by the Ohio Cities Water Company.This is still the celebration in Tiffin in 1978. ITEM NUMBER and the most important of these is now Tiffin Paper Company. The large interior open spaces under Godfried Diemer until the water pumping station was built. In 1878 the City of Tiffin purchased the dam and mill stream for the waterworks.
The building was started in that Landmark by the American Water Works Association as part of the company's centennial Tiffin's only other historic building relating to public utility service is the This is reflected today in the fact that it is The factors that produced this change in the economy were: the discovery of oil next major occupant was the Tiffin Robe and Tanning Company (1920-1934). A.J. and Jo Pilar asset to the city with its contributions to civic projects. Meshech Frost was responsible for National Machinery's moving to Tiffin in the 1870s from Cleveland; he gave the land, and PAGE above.
Wagner-Brickner Distillery.In 1886,the county history says that their product was seventy gallons of whiskey per day.Bowman's Distillery operated until about 1890.The Pure minority population in the community to work in these factories.These newer industrial UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR HERITAGE CONSERVATION AND RECREATION SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM Industrial Buildings of Tiffin CONTINUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER PAGE 1 1. 7.80 Hedges-Hunter-Keller-Bacon Grist Mill (2.36 acres in subdivision of NE }, less 244 ft. on NE end -- all property now and always part of mill complex) 3. Mueller Brewery (outlott 994 and part of outlots 993 & 995 in Mueller's Replat, 1880 -- 4. Mueller, Christ, Residence (outlots 991-993 of Mueller's Replat of 1880 -- all property now owned by Clair Forrest in this location) 5.
Ohio Lantern Company (Iots 1057, 1058, 1059, 1060, 1061 and five feet of lot 1056 of Smith at this location) 7. Tiffin Waterworks (2.32 acres in Clinton Iwp. along Sandusky River -- all land owned by Ohio Cities Water Co. at this location) 9. Beatty Glass Company (Block 33, lots 10-15 and blocks 34 and 39 in Second Highland Addition, c. 7.5 acres - all land now owned by Leonard Silver Manufacturing and owned by Robert H. Losey at this location) all land now owned by Tiffin Metal Products) 12. Webster Manufacturing Co.
(boundary drawn 25 feet around old complex of buildings in than this but much is parking and it includes a new one-story office building not included in nomination) FHR-8-300A RECEIVED (11/78) all property now owned by Tiffin Scenic Studios) 10.Wagner Bros.Bottling Works (lot 564 in Heming's Resurvey, Third Ward -- all land now always part of complex) all land owned by Digby at this location) DATE ENTERED FOR HCRS USE ONLY Tiffin Agricultural Works (lots 671, 672,676, 677 of Heming's Resurvey, corner of by Hanson at this location) 8.Bowman's Distillery(.24 acres along Sandusky River in Mueller's Subdivision of 1880 -- lots 31and 32,1ess southwest part in Appraiser's Platt of 1910--Webster owns more OCT 3 0 197° 2. Hunter, William, Residence (south part of northeast 4 of section 19 on Riverside Drive, less northeast side - all property that now goes with residence and owned by Bacon) W.C.
Hedges Addition -- all land now owned by Corinne Hoffman at this location) Harrison and Water Streets -- all land that goes with this building and owned by 13. Hanson Machinery Co. (lots 1 and 2 in Baldwin's Second Subdivision -- all land owned UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR HERITAGE CONSERVATION AND RECREATION SERVICE OCT 3 0 1979 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTOR Y -- NOMINATION FORM Industrial Buildings of Tiffin CONTINUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER PAGE UTMs for USGS map 1. Hedges-Hunter-Keller-Bacon Grist Mill 17 - 317790 - 4554540 2. Hunter, William, Residence 17 - 317830 - 4554490 3. Mueller Brewery 17 - 317600 - 4554110 4. Mueller, Christ, Residence 17 - 317580 - 4554100 5. Ohio Lantern Company 17 - 316970 - 4554180 6. Tiffin Agricultural Works 7. Tiffin Waterworks 17 - 316330 - 4552450 8. Bowman's Distillery 17 - 317690 - 4554400 9. Beatty Glass Company 10.
Wagner Brothers Bottling Works 17 - 316640 - 4553580 11. Tiffin Art Metal 17 - 316360 - 4555050 12. Webster Manufacturing Company 17 - 316200 - 4554700 13. Hanson Machinery Company 17 - 316290 - 4554200 RECEIVED (11/78) FHR-8-300A DATE ENTERED FOR HCRS USE ONLY 17 - 317370 - 4554180 17 - 316690 - 4554420 Working Number/0-30-79 2634 Photos - Inventory - ARCHEOLOGIST OTHER KEEPER CONTROL Send-back HAER Re-submit HISTORIAN Maps TECHNICAL Property Review United States Department of the Interior -Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service BRANCH CHIEF 2-3-81 National Register Write-up Federal Register Entry REVIEW UNIT CHIEF 1.7.80 Entered JAN 7 1980 OHO CITES-WATER COMPANY Tiffin, Ohio OCT 3 0 1979 (bet.
1901 & 1925)pump pit and tower (both 19105 Resources Tiffin Industrial Buildings Thematic Seneca County Barb Howe August 1978 Heidelberg College Preservation Office, Tiffin, Ohio Tiffin Waterworks Industrial Bldgs. of Tiffin) South and east sides of L.to R.hydro-electric plant 31dg. #7, photo # Tiffin, Ohio OCT 3 0 1979 Bldg. #$, photo # 5 Seneca County Resources Barb Howe August 1978 Tiffin Industrial Buildings Thematic pointed down and to west Heidelberg College Preservatiom Office, Tiffin, Ohio Floor of i878 pumping house along west wall; camera Tiffin Water Works Industrial Bldgs. of Tiffin) JAN . 7 1980 Tiffin, Ohio OCT 3 0 1979 Bldg. #7, photo # 4 Seneca County Resources Barb Howe Tiffin Industrial Buildings Thematic August 1978 Heidelberg College Preservation Office, Tiffin, Ohio JAN _ 7 1980 Tiffin Water Works (Early Industrial Bldgs.
of Tiffin) Tiffin, Ohio OCT 3 0 1979 Bldg. #7, photo # 3 JAN - 7 1980 Resources Barb Howe pointing south Tiffin Industrial Buildings Thematic August 1978 Heidelberg College Preservation Office Seneca County Interior and south wall of 1878 pumping house; camera Tiffin, Ohio OCT 3 0 1979 -pointing northeast Bldg. #7, photo # 2 Resources Barb Howe Tiffin Industrial Buildings Thematic West and south sides of waterworks complex; camera Heidelberg College Preservation Office, Tiffin, Ohio Seneca County Tiffin Water Works (Early Industrial Bldgs. of August 1978 Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number:64000651 for this property